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"These dangerous and historically baseless accusations echo some of the oldest and most pernicious antisemitic tropes," the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement.

Speaking outside court, Mr Hayes said the decision had been "a long time coming" after his "cruel and pernicious" sentence.

This kind of pernicious and wide-spread discrimination — packaged as ‘anti-racism’ — was allowed to flourish under the Biden Administration, but it will not be tolerated by this one,” he wrote.

“The fusion of libel suits and government officials in office is a pernicious development,” said Boutros.

He praised the government for having "shown such principled leadership in scrapping this pernicious Act".